Activism in USA
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Actualizado 12 ene 2018
Alan Rios Saul Calderon Genaro Ramos Edgar Romero
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Created bySaul Calderon
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The 14th amendment of the constitution gave blacks equal protection.The 15th amendment grants African Americans the right to vote.A 42-year-old woman named Rosa Parks found a seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus after work. Segregation laws at the time stated blacks must sit in designated seats at the back of the bus, and Parks had complied.
When a white man got on the bus and couldn’t find a seat in the white section at the front of the bus, the bus driver instructed Parks and three other blacks to give up their seats. Parks refused and was arrested.Nine black students also known as the little rock nine arrived at central high school to start school but instead were met with a mob and the national guard.President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued executive order 8802 on June 25, 1941 that opened jobs for all people regardless of race, creed, color or national origin.Southern segregation gain ground in 1896 when the US supreme court declared in Plessy vs. Ferguson that facilities for blacks and whites could be " seperate but equal"Woodrow Wilson initiated segregation in workplaces as the request of southern cabinet members in 1913Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. meet for the first and only time
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